jaffacake;287196 Wrote: > -=> Jim, > > I have absolutely no desire to waste my time defending myself against > false accusation and speculation. > > Robin Bowes, and others, are attacking me with untruths and guesswork. > > This is damaging to my reputation yet you choose to allow it to remain > within your forums. I can only assume that it may be commercially > advantageous to yourself to allow the name of one who posts a negative > review of your product to be tarnished in such an incorrect and > unnecessary manner. > > I am a Sonos owner and I have made this more than clear in directly > competitive threads on forums such as avsforums.com: > > http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=13367359#post13367359 > > Readers will note that even with this early disclosure on page one of > the thread, I will still attacked by Slim forum users not once, but > twice in that thread questioning my intentions. Whilst you can't be > help responsible for content held in other, 3rd party, forums - it > should be noted that those offensive posts link back to the content > here on these official Slim Devices forums. Content that you clearly > feel is entirely suitable and within your forum guidelines. > > Your house, your rules, I'm just very surprised and disappointed.
Let me ask you this: did you test the Duet--a commercially available version--prior to posting your cnet review? Now let me answer it for you: you did not. You purport to be fair, but you did not disclose that fact in your review. Did you expect that the community would welcome you with open arms? They feel like a product that they've built was unjustly portrayed; I agree with them. Your "review" was, simply put, an attempt to sow FUD. Again, you are entitled to your opinion. Others are within their rights to question it. If there is a personal attack--and, no, we don't consider Robin's response to you to have crossed that line--we will deal with it as per our forum guidelines. You may act as aggrieved as you wish. Petulance is hardly an endearing trait, however, and will likely make your time and efforts here far less productive. If you really want to be perceived as fair, amend your review on c|net and disclose both your prior association with Sonos as a forum admin, as well as the fact that you did not actually use a Squeezebox Duet prior to posting (using a borrowed beta version doesn't count). I think that would go a long way in creating a positive reputation here on our forums. Personally, I'm not interested in the whole Duet vs. Sonos debate. We build different products for different kinds of users. Sonos went about solving the problem of getting music from PC to stereo by building a private, completely controlled island; this gives them an advantage in ease of installation and multi-room sync of specific sources of music (but not all sources). We built a "freeport" where we can *integrate* fully into a home network environment and we opened our source code to the public so they can extend functionality, add features, and build the solution they are most interested in; our advantage then is openess, lower total ownership costs, and flexibility. Which one is most suitable for any given person is a question best answered by that individual. -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45734 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
